Neil MacGregor, the former director of the British Museum, has bemoaned Britain’s narrow view of its own history, calling it “dangerous and regrettable” for focusing almost exclusively on the “sunny side”. Neil MacGregor: ‘Britain forgets its past. Germany confronts it’ Read moreMacGregor warned: “This sort of handling of history is dangerous as well as regrettable”. He said Germans had given expression to their the worst chapter of their history in extensive memorials and Mahnmale (‘monuments to national shame’). He said he would welcome a similar exhibition about British history from a German perspective, “precisely because it be helpful for us to have our own history explained to us from an outside perspective,” he said.

Source: The Guardian October 07, 2016 17:37 UTC